Ideas for DevelopmentOur world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ?glass is half full? optimists of international development, suggests that the problems can be solved and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action, develop solutions and remake our world as it can and should be. Chambers peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book draws on experiences from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, covering topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility, continuity and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past, present and future; scaling up; behaviour and attitudes; responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st century. |
From inside the book
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... Responsible Well-being: a Personal Agenda for Development (2004) Introduction What is development? A changing ... Responsible well-being The primacy of the personal The pedagogy for the non-oppressed Overview Part 2: To Transform ...
... responsible well-being 194 Transforming power 209. Tables. Contrasting paradigms: LFA and the ALPS 71 A participation ladder with roles and relationships 106 Going to scale: The four programmes compared 140 Contrasting tendencies in the ...
... responsible leader – these actions would be pathetic were they not so profoundly tragic. For many who like me have been born British, that 'our' government should have gone along with some of this in spite of our protests is a matter ...
... Responsible well-being (Chapter 7) can be augmented by good use of agency, and reflection on the effects of our actions and non-actions, especially on the part of those with power and wealth. The ideas here are directions not ...
... Responsible wellbeing: A personal agenda for development', World Development (vol 25, no 11, 1997, pp1743–1754). In précising and editing the two sections which draw on Managing Rural DevelopmentI have cut out tedious supporting ...
Contents
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2 Aid and Administrative Capacity | 30 |
3 Procedures Principles and Power | 54 |
Review Reflections and Future | 86 |
5 PRA Participation and Going to Scale | 119 |